Saving the Bible from ourselves : learning to read and live the Bible well / [print]
Glenn R. Paauw.
- Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
Embarking -- Our complicated Bible -- Unveiling the elegant Bible -- Our snacking Bible -- Savoring the feasting Bible -- Our the gods must be crazy Bible -- Finding God in the historical Bible -- Our de-dramatized Bible -- Rediscovering the storiented Bible -- Performing the storiented Bible -- Our otherworldly Bible -- Grounded in the earthly Bible -- My private Bible -- Sharing our synagogue Bible -- Our ugly Bible -- Beholding the iconic Bible -- Return.
Does the Bible need to be saved? Over the course of the centuries, Bible scholars and publishers have increasingly added "helps"--Chapter divisions, verses, subheads, notes --
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Bible--Hermeneutics. Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible--Reading.